Jim stumbled into his people's camp before any of them knew he was around. They decided afterwards the reason he came in on them like he did was because his creeping around hiding from the enemy made him so quiet and all no one could hear him coming.

He did not bother to tell the sentry he avoided it was because he and Charles Ray played Indians since before they were good weaned. Sneaking around fooling people was one of their greatest accomplishments.

Only thing if Jim had given it a good thought, he would not sneaked upon his own people that way. It tore down something in a group of men who thought they were doing the best they could and then find out they were as impregnable as a group of college girls out for a picnic.

After they shipped him on farther south to decide what to do with him, the soldiers he showed up still talked about having a man in cotton pajamas walk right upon them and them not know it at all. It just was not proper and him barefooted and all.

They sent Jim to a headquarters far down south on the coast where the first thing that happened to him was to be questioned like a common criminal. Only thing about it, he hadn't minded at all telling his own people about where the enemy took him. He proudly told them how many of the enemy he'd seen. Most of all he enjoyed telling about the well‑fed, New York Marine he knew was a deserter ‑ a turn-coat, they called it.

Only thing, it was not until the war was over Jim found out they wrote a whole section in his service record. They were suspicions about him either being a traitor or being brain washed by his captors. There were few who escaped from North Korean prisons who walked back to their units like nothing happened.

The fact he walked right into camp without guards knowing he was around, led to stories about him coming down with the infamous Chang as a plant. After Jim had a chance to review his records while he was recuperating from the wound, then he realized why some of the things happened the way they did.

He called May Sue and told her he was safe. A Red Cross worker gave him three hours of free telephone time. There was no charge at all. That was one of the few times he'd found the Red Cross ready to do anything for him or any other serviceman. Now, the Salvation Army had free coffee and doughnuts waiting before the enemy left.